Lately I've been procrastinating more than I should be, so I felt I should make a to-do list for ACU. This way everyone can see what I'm planning on doing and what I'm getting done, as well as see if their suggestions are being considered. Not everything on this list will get done anytime soon, since some of it is unrealistic for a short-term goal. I figure this will help me stay more focused on what I need to do, though.

My problem is that I just don't have the time and energy to do all of this. At times I have the energy, but not the time. At other times I have the time, but not the energy. My biggest problem is my job and trying to do too many things at once on ACU. I work a 50 hour work week, and while it's not a hard work week since I'm self-employed at my own store, it does make it hard to focus on any one thing. It also cuts into my time greatly. I think my problem with ACU is that I keep focusing on random things that pop up instead of prioritizing what needs to get done, though. This causes me a lot of confusion and wasted effort. In the end, it comes down to all work and no play, which makes Niji want to go away!

Hopefully this list will help me stay more organized and prioritized. If it does, it'll make my job a lot easier. If not, oh well!

Anyway, on to the list!

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ACU Hub

• Add more alternate text for SEO. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Change to a divider based page. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Make the buttons roll-over instead of hotspot links. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Switch to the transparent version of the hub image. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Add a background image texture to the hub. - (Priority: Low)
  

ACU Homepage

• Consider changing to a WordPress Page. - (Priority: High)
  
• Update with current news and content. - (Priority: High)
  
• Feature member content. - (Priority: High)
  
• Rework the banner, sidebar, and footer. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Enable the ACU Store (Zazzle) link. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Alter the light-up on mouse-over of the sidebar buttons to be brighter. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Add more divider tags to the content section to allow for post details, if not using WordPress. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Adjust the color schema, but maintain the general blue theme. - (Priority: Low)
  

ACU Arena

• Rework the banner, sidebar, and footer. - (Priority: High)
  
• Add an information divider at the top with links to important info for the Arena. - (Priority: High)
  
• Create the 360 and PS3 top 25 rankers lists. - (Priority: High)
  
• Fix sidebar link to homepage. - (Priority: High)
  
• Consider changing the sidebar's location for more fluid Arena functionality. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Create individual ranker page template and make an example template using an AC NPC. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Alter the light-up on mouse-over of the sidebar buttons to be brighter. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Adjust color schema, but maintain the general red theme. - (Priority: Low)
  

ACU Wiki

• Add a Main Page template to serve as the front page of the wiki. - (Priority: High)
  
• Add copyright information, disclaimer, about, and privacy policy to wiki pages. - (Priority: High)
  
• Fix the navigation bars on the left to allow for proper utilization of the wiki and forum. - (Priority: High)
  
• Make a navigation category for the Armored Core games. - (Priority: High)
  
• Create a general article for the Armored Core series. - (Priority: High)
  
• Create an article for each individual game. - (Priority: High)
  
• Make an article for each games parts list, missions list, and arena list. - (Priority: High)
  
• Add reference links to all the major topics for wiki discussion. - (Priority: High)
  
• Add categories to articles and clean up category pages. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Draft layout for special sections such as ACDC winners and metagame discussion, etc. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Add custom hooks and modules to the wiki to allow for increased utility. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Add the intro to each games article as an embedded YouTube link. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Create sub-articles for each part with full statistics and images. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Create sub-articles for each mission in each game with full walkthrough, important info, and pictures of key mission features. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Create articles for each game's formulas and mechanics. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Add playthroughs of each mission as an embedded YouTube link to their respective articles. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Fully flesh out wiki help navigation category articles with links and mini-guides. - (Priority: Low)
  

ACU Forums

• Check to make sure all user groups have proper access to the different sections of the site. - (Priority: High)
  
• Add and flesh out any important information about the arena in the tournaments sub-forum. - (Priority: High)
  
• Make a site transparency post in the board news & rules section. - (Priority: High)
  
• Make forum and sub-forum guidelines for each forum and sub-forum. - (Priority: High)
  
• Correct the forum and sub-forum descriptions and make them more descriptive and in-depth. - (Priority: High)
  
• Create new banners for the forum skins. - (Priority: High)
  
• Create ACDC templates and guides for each AC game to minimize workload related to ACDCs. - (Priority: High)
  
• Create simple AC design templates, both vertical and horizontal, for each AC game. - (Priority: High)
  
• Create ban lists and topics for their discussion for each of the AC games. - (Priority: High)
  
• Create game rating, review, and discussion topics for wiki reference for each AC game. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Create wiki guidelines and tips topic to help wiki editors understand how to manipulate the wiki. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Create a wiki featured video walkthrough guidelines topic. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Create general wiki discussion articles for parts, mechanics, missions, metagame, etc. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Flesh out the staff café section with guidelines and guides for moderators and global moderators. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Create help and example topics for most sub-forums. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Locate AC guide and walkthrough writers and see if they'll upload their work to ACU. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Add links or make a topic to the quick AC builder programs. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Add topics and guidelines for the voting up of standard members into elites. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Updated user groups and ranks topics to reflect any current changes to the groups. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Add tutorial topics for using ACU features to the board tutorials section, such as fan-fiction blog organization. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Add more skins and modify them to work with current modifications. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Consider changing media discussion into non-AC discussion. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Create an AC gallery topic (vanity videos) in the AC general discussion forum. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Create an ACU store discussion topic for members to brainstorm up ideas for potentially interesting merchandise. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Create FAQs for each of the AC games. - (Priority: Low)
  

ACU Blog (List Needs Re-evaluation)

• Check to make sure all user groups have proper access to the section. - (Priority: High)
  
• Encourage member participation in the Blog section. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Start a community fan-fiction. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Look around for AC fanfic writers and see if they'll upload their stories to ACU. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Encourage rating and commenting of blog posts. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Encourage use of internal categories. - (Priority: Low)
  

ACU Gallery (List Needs Re-evaluation)

• Check to make sure all user groups have proper access to the section. - (Priority: High)
  
• Add information on moderator approval to the ACU Gallery Rules portion for each section. - (Priority: High)
  
• Create a category for AC related artwork that doesn't fit a specific game. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Collect more artwork from the net and upload them to their respective albums. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Encourage member participation in the Gallery section. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Check image descriptions and titles to insure proper labeling. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Encourage rating and commenting of images. - (Priority: Low)
  

ACU Downloads (List Needs Re-evaluation)

• Check to make sure all user groups have proper access to the section. - (Priority: High)
  
• Make sure upload and download limits work properly for each group. - (Priority: High)
  
• Upload all of my AC save game data and an AC Garage. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Encourage member participation in the Downloads section. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Check uploaded files descriptions to insure proper instructions for use are available. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Create a category for uploading AC Garages. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Create a category for uploading AI Arenas for SL and SLp. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Create a category for uploading other AC related files. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Create a category for uploading non-AC related saved games. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Encourage rating and commenting of files. - (Priority: Low)
  

ACU Chat (List Needs Re-evaluation)

• Upgrade to 6.0 when it becomes properly stable. - (Priority: Medium)
  

Other (List Needs Re-evaluation)

• Be lazy. - (Priority: High)
  
• Add content to the ACU MySpace and Facebook pages. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Add video content to the ACU YouTube page. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Add more content to the ACU store and open it for member use. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Spring cleaning on March 1st. - (Priority: Medium)
  
• Advertising campaign. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Add a Jukebox to the site. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Add the IBproBattle RPG to the site. - (Priority: Low)
  
• Actually do these things. - (Priority: Low)
  

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Ok, that's all of it! Off to work I go. I'll probably never get any of this done.